Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 76

The Englishmen were so rich that their pockets quite bulged out and seemed ready to burst; and they could bet too, as you shall hear. "

Who acts: Englishmen, pockets, you · What happens: be, bulge out, seem, burst, bet, hear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Englishmen, pockets, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Englishmen	det
2	Englishmen	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 rich	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 rich	advmod
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 bulged	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pockets	nmod:poss
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bulged	nsubj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 bulged	advmod
10	bulged	bulge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 bulged	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bulged	conj
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seemed	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 burst	mark
16	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bet	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bet	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bet	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bet	aux
21	bet	bet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rich	parataxis
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 bet	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 hear	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bet	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Englishmen	rich property	tree rules
2	bulge out	past	Englishmen's pockets		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	Englishmen's pockets not said here	ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	burst	to-infinitive	Englishmen's pockets not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bet	could	Englishmen = englishman		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	hear	shall	you		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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